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Alright, well I am lvl 19 right now, and have 1970 Int but like 500 Health, so should I put some in health or just keep it in int? Because I plan on just being a party supporter and making another character for PVP'ing and such so yeah thanks

bard/cleric is simple: full INT

bard/cleric is a support build not meant to kill. if u have another main account u can use this build to always be buff. I would go pure str. but only if u will use it as a support and not try to kill others with it. pvling will be the best way to lvl.

Stay pure INT. Your damage is not worse than that of a Chinese nuker, and the clerical skills will help keep you alive. Pure INT will allow you to do good damage, and a bit of decent equipment will do the rest. Between your bardic attack skills and your clerical healing/buff skills you can solo very well, and party even better. You'll need that mana if you plan on throwing out the big bardic spells like mana orbit. Pure STR builds cannot do such things. Check my sig; it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about.

Ragnorak wrote:bard/cleric is a support build not meant to kill. if u have another main account u can use this build to always be buff. I would go pure str. but only if u will use it as a support and not try to kill others with it. pvling will be the best way to lvl.

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Pure INT all the way. I absolutely love this build.

My character wears Light Armour. It gives you better defensive power and also give the person you buff extra str, int, as well as defense. I die less often than other clerics in robes.

For soloing, I use bard attacks, cast RD and Holy Spell, Bless for giants. I rarely die, usually only when I go to res a dead guildmate. You might not kill as fast as a wizard, but you can solo quite well. I can easily 2-shot mobs my level, 3-shot orange/red mobs.

I don't suggest powerlevelling for this build (or any build) unless you are already familiar with the skills. I got help from guildmates and I have to say that I sucked as a cleric at first (I already knew the bard skills). It takes some time, practice and skill to get good at using the right skill at the right time.

And you can pvp. I admit that I don't do it very often. It's not something I'm really interested in doing. But in CTF, I have taken out Chinese nukers. And wizards (without cleric buffs) are easy prey. With mana tambour on, you can usually take a hit from them and not die. Plus your bard skills cast faster. I can do 2 nukes in the time it takes a chinese nuker to cast his first one.

Pure Int if you think you'll always be in a good party or you want to be in successful pvp. As you've already said you don't care about pvp the pvp issues of a hybrid are irrelevant. It'd come down to how good your party is I don't think that it will make that big of a difference if you can do more dmg vs npc's or heal marginally better unless you have a uber party that grinds 11 lvl's higher. If your party isn't good you will need to be able to take some hits while not blessed as sometiems you won't be .

Add a bit of str if you want to have fun but forget about pvp if you do so. Your left with abs dmg attacks and offring and nothing else hurts your targets.

There are so many different ways to decide this.. are you using your cleric as main and bard sub? or other way around?

do you plan on pimping up your gear with str? do you buy good gear with str already on it? if you only buy NPC gear you might want to put a couple of points in STR but I dont think too much. I really dont think you should do a set 2:1 ratio... If you are hard core and have good tanks/friends to party with alot by all means go pure INT, overall this will be the better way to go.. if not than add a couple of points in STR wont hurt imo.

Pure int or hybride but small hybride if u take hybride like 9/1 or someting

I did a 1:2 bard/cleric but is just lvl44 at the moment.

It totally depend on what you are looking for this char, if you want to use it to kill you should go pure int (I powelrevel my char to 42 as 1:2 and now it can't kill anything alone). If you want it just as a buffer for guild/fortress war you can make it hybrid or str but consider that if you make it str you will need to find a place where he will be safe sit on the floor or he will runout of MP. If you want it to party grind you should go pure int or as much slightly hybrid because you will be using frequently skills that require lots of MP and you cant be sitting on the floor meanwhile your party is grinding.

the more int you put on your char the more it'll heal =)

go for it man!!!!!!

throw some str on that

Add some str to that build if you wanna be any good. A 90% magic balance is appropriate for that kind of build, pure int is fail. The point is to keep your party alive, not for the party to keep you alive.

twistedorgy wrote:Alright, well I am lvl 19 right now, and have 1970 Int but like 500 Health, so should I put some in health or just keep it in int? Because I plan on just being a party supporter and making another character for PVP'ing and such so yeah thanks

IMO, since you just wanna be a party supporter, then you can do 2:1 hybird or its better to 4:1
I know when i hit the cap, i will make a bard/cleric char, i just love what that build can do, and i will surely go full int, and maybe you should try being full int, then you wont need any other character for PVP'ing, cause bard/clerics can do very good with offerings and absolutes, also the fast nukes of bard and the absolute with combination of tambouring, you just should know how and when to use the skills, and i believe your lvl is still low to decide if you should go hybird or full int, try to reach lvl40 mastery while being full int, and if you didnt like that, then you can add str to balance your HP/MP.. And in parties, its all depends on the tankers, if they are very good and they can buff you with warrior buffs, then i dont think you can die when fighting mobs 11 lvl higher than you, even if you are pure int..

Good luck xD

I noticed that none of the hybrid supporters actually PLAY a bard. All the high level bard/[cleric/wizard]s on SRF play the character pure INT.